Washington, D.C. — In a victory for voting accessibility across Alabama, the Alabama NAACP (AL NAACP), Greater Birmingham Ministries (GBM), the League of Women Voters of Alabama (LWVAL), and the Alabama Disability Advocates Program (ADAP) ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) issued an open letter to college and university administrators sharing a recent research report from LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI): Police and Protests: The Inequity of Police Responses to Racial ...
NEW YORK – Today, a federal appeals court issued a decision in a lawsuit aiming to halt New York City’s attempts to make admissions to its selective public high schools fairer and more inclusive for ...
Tonight, Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams is scheduled to be executed by the State of Missouri, unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes. There is compelling evidence that Mr. Williams is innocent of the crime of which he ...
(NEW YORK, NY) – Yesterday, a federal district court publicly filed a 503-page report by a retired judge, who has been working with the court-appointed Independent Monitor overseeing the reform of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk and ...
LDF’s President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson has sent a letter to Missouri’s Governor Parson, urging him to stop the execution of Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams scheduled for September 24, 2024. Last month, the Circuit Court of ...
Read a PDF of our statement here. Recently, multiple public officials, including Portage County, Ohio Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski, unleashed a deluge of hateful language aimed at immigrants of color and asylum seekers. In response, Legal Defense ...
